Beginning the process of doing an alternator conversion. Bought the alternator and a few small pullies to play with. I don't want to wait until I loose my charging system to decide if this is how I will do it or not. I really don't see a whole lot of gl1000's with the alternator installed, or the step by steps on what was done. I will try to lay everything out with as much detail as I can think of. If there is something you want to see, a measurement or a bad attempt at something let me know I will attempt to document that as much as I can.
That said I have seen the price of the pullies that there are diagrams of here and really can not justify paying 200 to have one made for that kind of money I would just spend the day taking out the motor bits and installing a stock rectifier coil. I bought the alternator for 43.00 usd and the pulley I will use on the crank for 17.00 and the smaller pulley that will be on the alternator for 5.00 totaling 65.00 and will be putting in new coolant when I move the radiator and a few other expenses but I am sure will be under 100 in total. I will give the good and bad issues here and willing to take advice of experience to prevent me from wasting my time, does not mean I will always take the advice though, so don't be hurt if I go ahead and give it a good try.
(There are other pics in that folder in the photos but will only place the significant one in the thread, so to see more I think you can click on this--> gallery/album.php?album_id=10378 )
Alternator pulley 1.5"
Alternator 35amp single wire
Soon to be crank pulley 3"
That said I have seen the price of the pullies that there are diagrams of here and really can not justify paying 200 to have one made for that kind of money I would just spend the day taking out the motor bits and installing a stock rectifier coil. I bought the alternator for 43.00 usd and the pulley I will use on the crank for 17.00 and the smaller pulley that will be on the alternator for 5.00 totaling 65.00 and will be putting in new coolant when I move the radiator and a few other expenses but I am sure will be under 100 in total. I will give the good and bad issues here and willing to take advice of experience to prevent me from wasting my time, does not mean I will always take the advice though, so don't be hurt if I go ahead and give it a good try.
(There are other pics in that folder in the photos but will only place the significant one in the thread, so to see more I think you can click on this--> gallery/album.php?album_id=10378 )
Alternator pulley 1.5"
Alternator 35amp single wire
Soon to be crank pulley 3"